I am oppose to fracking in Illinois because of detrimental effect to our environment.

many people were killed there .. America do inhuman works there

It poisons water and has been a major factor in climate change.

We are all affected by the hidden costs of fossil fuels and nuclear power. They are bad for our environment, for our health, and for our ability to compete with regions switching to more secure and sustainable energy systems. The faster we switch to renewables, the sooner we will avoid these costs.

Struggling as I am, when I receive a check from someone or a company and take it to the bank it is drawn on, and they charge me a fee because I do not have an account with them is just plain wrong. When every penny you make counts, having a bank charge you $7.00 to $15.00 really hurts!

I teach Assata Shakur's Autobiography for my Women in American Society class and her incarceration for a crime she did not commit compels a response to the FBI's latest action 40 years after her escape from prison in 1979.

Republicans have blocked numerous progressive bills by merely threatening to filibuster. The American public is being held hostage by a conservative minority. Democrats should call their bluff and force them to actually filibuster. If they had to actually filibuster every bill they want to block this tactic would quickly become ineffective, as well as creating a significant negative reaction among the American people.

In 2012 Disney Pixar released "Brave", giving fans and families a truly daring and adventurous heroine who was a welcome break from the long-standing Disney Princess brand. For a family like mine, concerned about gender stereotypes and sexualization in childhood, Merida was the princess we had been waiting for. To our dismay, Disney has given Merida a very adult-looking makeover, along with the other princesses. By sexualizing Merida, Disney is sending the message to kids everywhere that being a princess isn't about being brave, it is about being pretty.

PUPS is important in order to make sure that all breeders of dogs have to be licensed with the USDA and comply with standards set forth by the Animal Welfare Act. Currently, the Animal Welfare Act and the USDA only inspect commercial breeders who sell their puppies to a wholesaler, for example a pet store. With the passage of PUPS, breeders who sell their dogs remotely, to the public through the Internet, newspaper and telephone will have to become licensed under the USDA and follow humane standards set forth by the Animal Welfare Act. Such standards include health care, proper sanitation, excessive and cage specifications to name a few. You can find more information about PUPS here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.847: Animal Welfare Act standards: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/downloads/awr/awr.pdf

Millions of people use drugs, by making drug use illegal makes a lot of unsafe use by giving crime control and makes it so people can't see or know, how, why and what their being use for.

Big Wall Street megabanks are still putting American taxpayers at risk. Big banking institutions like Bank of America and Citibank carry more assets than they have capital to cover. That means that if those assets go south, the banks can't recover on their own. And when a bank's failure means the failure of the American economy, the taxpayers are forced to step in. It's called "Too Big To Fail." It should also be called "too risky for the American economy" and "too reckless to continue." This is the practice that brought our economy to the brink once before. That's why I have a new, bipartisan plan to end Too Big To Fail, and break up Wall Street megabanks for good. It would require that banks carry enough capital to cover their own losses, or force them to downsize so that they are no longer a risk to the American economy. This is a common sense solution -- but I need all of us to help. So sign your name today, and make sure members of Congress know that you're in favor of the ending "Too Big to Fail."

deny everything and sent on a 40 mile one way trip.